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We hope you will enjoy these carefully chosen walks and we look forward to quenching your thirst and satisfying your appetite on your return to The Sycamore. tel 01663 743561 email [email protected] website www.thesycamoreinn.co.uk The Millennium Walkway Lantern Pike (3¼ miles) Climb to our local hilltop with splendid views over Hayfield village to Kinder Scout. New Mills & Millennium Walkway (6 miles) Experience the dramatic Torrs gorge, a section of the Peak OUR OPENING HOURS Forest Canal, and wide views over the Sett valley. Monday & Tuesday 5pm – 10pm Wed & Thursday 12pm – 3pm, 5pm – 10pm Friday 12pm – 3pm, 5pm – 11pm Saturday 12pm – 11pm THE HARDWICK INN OPEN: Mon to Sat: 11.30am–11pm Sunday 12pm – 9pm 3rd edition. Text, design, mapping and photography Hardwick Park, Chesterfield, Derbyshire S44 5QJ © David Dunford 2017. All rights reserved. Sunday: 12 noon–10.30pm Kinder Scout (11 miles, shortcuts available) Tel: 01246 850245 Food is served daily – our kitchen hours vary seasonally; Take a classic gritstone hike to Derbyshire’s highest www.walksfromthedoor.co.uk please seeWebsite: our website www.hardwickinn.co.uk for up-to-date food hours. Kinder DownfallFOOD SERVED: Mon to Sat: till 9.30pm hill and tallest waterfall, plus pretty Hayfield village. Email: [email protected] Sunday: till 9pm stile, the path follows a fence along the edge of the clough to a gate and follow the track uphill. 21 Follow the road round to the right as it Lantern Pike New Mills & Millennium Walkway into Shedyard Farm. 30 Bear left between the farm buildings, then crosses the stream to reach Tunstead House, which the path skirts via 3¼ miles: Moderate 6 miles: Fairly easy follow the farm drive for 400 yards until you reach Laneside Road. a track on the right. 22 Beyond the buildings, follow a short walled 31 Cross straight over and walk along a driveway and past a house. section to reach open fields. 23 Keep along the left-hand wall of the Allow 2 hours. One significant climb and some rocky ground. Short A couple of minor climbs. May be muddy in places after rain. 32 Beyond the buildings, cross a step-stile made of massive stone first field, then cross the middle of the next three fields, heading sections may be muddy after rain. Numerous stiles on the return from New Mills. Allow 3 hours. blocks by a gate and cross to a gap stile protected by wooden spars. relentlessly uphill from gate to gate. 24 In the fifth field, as the slope 33 Follow the wall ahead, over a series of ladder stiles, until you meet eases off, keep parallel to the right-hand wall to a gateway and then 1 From the front door of The Sycamore, turn right along the road 1 From the front door of The Sycamore, turn left. 2 Just beyond a row Oven Hill Road by a pair of cottages. 34 Turn left and follow the road a further gate into open country by the scant remains of a ruined (Sycamore Road), heading downhill past the car park entrance. 2 Pass of terraced cottages on the right, turn left down a flight of steps at a downhill all the way to the main road, passing Arden Quarry on your building. For a walk to Edale, turn right here. 25 Turn left briefly a phonebox and postbox on your right opposite the Old Post Office public footpath sign. 3 Turn left down the stone-pitched lane and pass right partway down. 35 Cross the main road and follow a driveway to across rushy ground to the higher of two gates, then turn immediate- and continue downhill. 3 Towards the bottom of the hill, just before a metal barrier between a small reservoir (left) and a mill building the left of the former Zion Chapel. 36 When the drive bends left, ly right, steeply up the spine of Kinderlow End ridge. The steepest a children’s play area on the right, turn left into a cobbled driveway (right). 4 When the road turns right into the mill, follow the stone- follow the path ahead, with back gardens on your right. 37 On central section is pitched with stones. 26 Beyond the rocky section with a Pennine Bridleway fingerpost. 4 Beyond the cottages on the setted way straight ahead past a couple of houses up to the Sett meeting Station Road, turn left down to the River Sett. 38 Cross the the gradient eases, but the path continues uphill along the centre of left, the bridleway continues as a rocky track between dry-stone Valley Trail. 5 Turn right and follow the Trail for a third of a mile to river and follow the road up the hill back to The Sycamore. the ridge to a further rocky outcrop. 27 Pick up the paved path that walls. 5 At the top of the wood, go through a gate into a farm drive at High Hill Road. 6 Cross over and continue over Watford Bridge, skirts to the right of Kinderlow Bowl Barrow. 28 Keep left when ignoring paths to left and right. 7 Cross straight over St George’s Road a hairpin bend, and follow the drive ahead (uphill). 6 On meeting a another paved path joins from the right, following the slabs to the trig and descend a slaloming section. 8 Partway up the other side, climb a road (Sitch Lane), turn right then immediately left up a no-through Kinder Scout point on Kinder Low. At the trig point, turn left to reach the plateau flight of steps on your left to another road; take the metalled path road with another Pennine Bridleway sign. 7 Climb steeply to a house, 11 miles: Strenuous edge at a cairn. 29 Follow the edge path for a little over a mile to opposite, behind the surgery and Leisure Centre car park. 9 Just Kinder Downfall, fording Red Brook about halfway along. At times, ignoring the turning to Higher Cliffe Farm on your right, and then before an old railway overbridge, turn right up steps. 10 Turn left and Not for the inexperienced or ill-equipped: includes long, steep climbs particularly in the rockier sections, there is a choice of paths and the continue along the bridleway beyond. 8 Just after a gate, turn left off left again along Hyde Bank Road, crossing over the railway bridge with and descents over rough and rocky moorland terrain. Walking boots way forward is indistinct, but route-finding is generally simple: keep the main track by a National Trust sign, and climb a narrow path the river down to your right. 11 Just before a T-junction, turn right and Ordnance Survey map OL1 recommended; pack food and water- between the peat on your right and the steeper ground dropping beside a wall. 9 At the top of the slope, turn right along the ridge down steps into the Torrs gorge (signposted “Torrs Riverside Park”). proofs and do not attempt in bad weather. Likely to be boggy or away to your left. 30 Ford the shallow River Kinder above the Down- towards the top of Lantern Pike. 10 Beyond the topograph at the 12 At the bottom, cross the river and turn left. 13 Bear right at Torrs muddy in places; several streams to ford. Allow 5–6 hours. fall and continue along the plateau edge in similar fashion to before, summit, follow the path ahead that descends unevenly through the Hydro and the weir, and pass under the Union Road viaduct. Take For a shorter walk, start at step 12 in Hayfield village (8 miles) or except now heading northwest. 31 After a little under a mile, having heather to rejoin the Pennine Bridleway. 11 Follow a short section of either of the lower paths (ignoring the steps on the right up to the drive up Kinder Road to Bowden Bridge, step 18 (6½ miles). climbed to a minor rocky summit followed by a level stretch with Heritage Centre). 14 Cross the Millennium Walkway. 15 Almost walled track left to a gate into open fields. 12 Head out along a grassy Firstly, follow steps 1–5 of the Lantern Pike walk, above. sandy sections, the path reaches a projecting spur of land where the track that curves left across the field to the far right-hand corner, immediately, turn left over a footbridge across the Goyt. 16 Follow edge path turns sharp right. Turn left here and leave the Kinder Scout where six ways meet above Blackshaw Farm. 13 Turn left and follow the path beyond as it winds up steps through the buildings of Torr 6 On meeting a road (Sitch Lane), turn right. 7 Follow Sitch Lane for plateau, descending fairly steeply down the grassy shoulder. Vale Mill. 17 At the entrance road, turn right and follow it out past a the far edge of the field to a gate in the corner.